Kazerad: I feel like this might be too obvious to go on this page!

Adroma: @Kazerad: Gotta love that ole mistresse's son, Mankar. Mehrunes would be proud.

Tahrey: >Hopeless_Drunk: Buy mead

Bartender: we have basic mead for one septim, or above average mead for three.

>Hopeless_drunk: still have incongruous standards and a two bottle thirst.

You decide to get one of each and try mixing them. Surely this can only go well.

>assess finances

You have one septim, something that looks like it might once have been a coin before a century of dirt and corrosion did a number on it, and a pocket full of bric-a-brac.

>try bartering

It's surprisingly effective! The bartender accepts your offer of one septim for the basic mead, plus an unknown coin, some disembodied eyes, a single cufflink and a decorative button for the above average mead. Whether he's just taking pity on you, knows something you don't about the junk that collected in your filthy pockets - or maybe the Mead - or is simply a magpie-like hoarder, you will never know and don't care to, as you've already uncorked both bottles and tipped them into an oversized stein you keep secreted in a hidden corner of your lengthy beard.

After that, things get a bit hazy.

Tahrey: Dammit, why is the picture sideways? It was the right way up when i selected it off the file list...

AMKitsune: @Tahrey: EXIF jpg meta data. Some cameras try to add 'rotation' data to the jpg that's created. Some site and programs use this data better than others...

Tahrey: Grah! If it's able to do that, why doesn't it just save it the right way up in the first place? JPGs can be rotated 90 degrees rapidly and losslessly after all.

Lunacy. But thanks for fixing it, whoever that was.

AMKitsune: @Tahrey: You're most welcome. And it's pretty ridiculous, not all programs respect/acknowledge this 'rotation meta-data' and the ones that do don't necessarily interpret it in the same way. There's absolutely no standardisation to the process.

While it's a pain to do, you'd honestly be better off removing the meta-data from your images before uploading them to the internet. Not only might they contain slightly annoying things like rotation data, but they'll also have things like the date the picture was taken, the camera make and settings and possibly even location data if the option's enabled on your camera (and possibly other things that I don't know about).

There are a number of ways to strip this EXIF meta-data from jpg's but one of the easiest ways would be to use one of the many online meta-data removing tools. I actually created a 'Daedric fun tip' a while ago mentioning the whole 'image rotation problem' and included a link to a website that lets you view/remove the unwanted meta-data. I can't imagine that many people would have noticed it though. Daedric isn't exactly the easiest thing to read XD.

http://www.verexif.com/en/

Tahrey: Date/time the picture was taken: literally an hour or two before upload.

Camera make/model/settings: Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini, mostly auto but usually with flash forced on or off as appropriate and occasionally forced focus or exposure.

Location: I always turn that shit off as part of the initial device setup, so no fear there. The GPS only ever gets turned on when absolutely necessary anyway, because cellphone GPS in general and Samsung's in particular is utterly hopeless and mainly just drains the battery for no real benefit.

As for stripping it etc before upload, maybe a bit tricky on a smartphone that I was already having upload issues with, but I might try filtering through that site in future if needed.

But really I don't understand why it even bothers including that info when it would be just as easy to change the orientation of the picture before encoding it... I mean, if it knows enough to set a rotation tag, it knows enough to save it the right way up, right?

(I'd prefer that it did neither, in fact, rather than attempting to save some kind of corrective data and making things worse. At least then I'd only have myself to blame for not correcting the rotation before upload)

Tahrey: Also if I felt confident enough that it would have worked in a timely fashion I'd have reduced the resolution too ;)

Tahrey: >TFW you find a small altoids-type box whilst doing a back bedroom clearout with a bunch of strange coins and silvery buttons in it that would have been just perfect to act as septims a few days after uploading this.

grrrrg

RoninSmall: Brian Chippendale, very mentally ill musician and artist from Providence, my idol along with Katya. Ps: for better understand who is Brian: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YxSi4a0Ygk8

BadReligion: The fk happend to her? ಠ_ಠ

Or no, I don't want to know.

Yewty: what even

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: Is Katia's face.... melting...?

Geravind: @RoninSmall: Понимаешь... пока все дочитают до сцыль на юпуп, они скорее крикнут "что за чёртов зомби!" и убегут. =-_-=

RoninSmall: @Geravind: не знаю от чего, но эта ситуация вызывает у меня улыбку@Armored-Struggle-Wagon: THIS IS MAAAAAASK!

Man_Of_Mer: All I can think of for the caption is ," I feel pretty!"

Tahrey: Is he the guy who puts a load of latex stuff on his face and then moulds it into a variety of disturbing character masks whilst it's still setting, on-camera?

Ladas2: A drawing from me.

Just a question. How can I tag the artist or am i doing it right and it´s changing itself for tagging it Artist:Ladas2 ?

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: @Ladas2: tag yourself as "artist:_Ladas2"

AMKitsune: @Ladas2: In your case, that would be solved by instead putting your name as "artist:_Ladas2"
We don't know why this bug exists in the booru software, but at least we have this way around it when it occurs.

Ladas2: Ah..., so thats how its done. Thanks to you two^^

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: @Ladas2: No problem, Man!

Tahrey: No no no... you want MISTLETOE at the top of the frame :D

POMA: Pineapplepeak is Prequel's spiritual successor featuring unlucky courier girl, lovely law enforcer, huge bitch that ruins protagonist's life, vague references to pineapples and much much more. (Too bad it availible only in Russian)

Geravind: Awww. :3 Katia has such an interesting expression here!

Geravind: @POMA: Помыч, -негодник!- ты подсадил меня на ещё один офигительный комикс! =-_-=
Как теперь жить...

Tahrey: The only thing i want to know is why that other person has a brightly coloured bra on their head.

Geravind: @Tahrey: That's a foolish but nice cap. Callidora is all about that. Her womanhood is a bit weird... But all that webcomic is completely adorable!

Tahrey: Totes a brahat, Ger :D

AMKitsune: After many a night spent in nothing but her 'underpaint', Katia declared never to be caught out in the open without clothes again. But with only one set of clothes at hand, which will be end up greater? Her new sense of resolve, or her internal body temperature?

MetalC0Mmander: I like the look of her fur right there.

Tahrey: take clothes off, put in inventory, already!

samus17: If you read all the way down and are still unimpressed or unamused, have my sincere apologies for wasting your time.

Kazerad: I am removing the "questionable" tag because the only questionable part is why.

Vidiotdragon: Cookies that taste like Hepatitis and fish! Nah but that's insane dedication and drunkenness.

CaptainLackwit: "Cider calmly accepts art criticism"

I'm lightheaded.

Tahrey: > Blood everywhere, knives and tin cans involved

Looks like you might actually be Kazerad without realising it.

Eating: >Cider calmly accepts art critique.jpg
>Pvt. Pyle
Oh jeez.

Also, what Tahrey said.

Tahrey: Hepatitis-and-fish flavour? I think I may have to find a way to effectively zoom this then actually read it instead of just looking at the photo thumbnails.

Tahrey: > gets to part about planning to cut open a soup can to use as a makeshift cutter
> impromptu reflexive biting of fingers in horror at what's almost certainly going to result

Tahrey: > was not disappointed
> unfortunately
o_O

Valkaiser: @D_C_N: Not if it was an accident :3

D_C_N: Welp, I've seen enough of the phantom menace to know that someone slapsticking their way into accidentally defeating an army isn't very entertaining, lol, may just avoid it entirely then.

Although, it may be mildly entertaining if she tripped and knocked the antagonist over a cliff or something... the possibilities. ;)

AMKitsune: @D_C_N: Yes. I'd imagine so at least. I think part of the reason that everyone finds Katia so relatable is that she essentially acts like any other 'normal' person would in her situation. She's not a brave adventurer willing to wipe out hoards of bandits for a chest of loot at the end of a cave or take on a giant frost troll. She essentially has the mind of a regular person thrust into an irregular situation (a regular person with alcohol problems,fireballs and telekinesis, but regular none the less). If she 'were' to kill someone, either accidentally or reluctantly on purpose, I'm imagine that she'd feel absolutely distraught afterwards. To the point of emotionally breaking down if I had to guess. The only reason I think she faired as she did with the big Imp was because she was forced into the situation beyond her will and it was a 'monster', not a 'person'. Of course you could always go down the 'killing someone' route, but I'd have to wish you the best of luck in writing it in both a believable way and a way in which your readers would feel comfy continuing with.

Saying all this, maybe Kazerad will have her kill someone at some point (on purpose) and not be too effected by it. I wouldn't imagine so though...

Geravind: It was completely hard to read: some typos, some unmemorable names, hordes of rare words (this one's vocabulary is on fire), nonstandard dialogues, not clearly logical decisions. It should be more... clear to comprehend for reader.
Katia still acts like a ballast, but it looked like she's an important person to be worth of saving at the beginning.

It's completely okay, if she kills an enemy, but a kind soul -like hers- is capable of doing it only with real hatred on board.

It would be nice, if author put a few (<1%) deeply professional details here and there. For example: how to cross a river in the best possible way or how to change formation, when facing a single enemy or a group of enemies (of course, such hints should come from someone completely professional, not from some clueless cat)... It's usually hard for an author to figure out such details, but a sophisticated reader greatly appreciates it. And it's cool, when character's decisions are copletely logical (accordingly to condition, temper, etc.) and their behavior is most natural.

D_C_N: Thanks for the feedback and the answers, of my flaws, that I was actually aware of is my poor dialogue.

And for the next story, I think I have a decent Idea of how to proceed. (I'll be sure to include more details regarding the features of, well, battle, in the next story)

D_C_N: I lied. I have no idea how to proceed. I think this segment may be the last. I think I just neednto practice more before I post anything else. So, I'm afraid my little story may have to end here.

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: @D_C_N: do not worry, as people will gladly make a fanfic about your fanfic, someday. :p

D_C_N: I know, er, well, that, hopefully is the plan. That I can pull Katia back out of this world and publish it with only my own characters. But the problem I seem to have is balance, if not enough happens, it will be boring. If too much happens it will be clutered. And if it has fast parts and slow parts it would probably be far to long.

Seeing as I am posting this to the prequel fanart site, I don't really feel that I could justifiably expect anyone here to read a 20 page story, where most of the content are things that they aren't really interested in.

Thanks for the encouragement though.

D_C_N: I might have a part 3 to upload in the coming days. If I can get it to be a level of quality I'm okay with.

Tahrey: ...so this is fanfiction of fanfiction?

I can't even come up with a suitable Inception pun that includes a properly clear name for that...

Nyflex: I really wonder which plot is behind of this pic!

Tahrey: I really like the picture but I'm not sure what's going on in it :D

Strawberry-Jamasaur: @Nyflex: @Tahrey: It takes the context of the final Thieves Guild mission in Oblivion, "The Ultimate Heist", in which you break into the Imperial Palace and steal an elder scroll from the blind moth priests. The thing I love about this particular mission and why I thought it would be a good submission to the contest is because a lot of the previous TG quests are preparing you for this mission, so it feels good when you see all your hard thieving work pay off, and plus I thought it would give a lot of implied context to the image, though it took me all of an hour after posting it to realize how stupid that reasoning was

AMKitsune: It's the smallest of nit-picks, but shouldn't she have used the arrow of extrication by this point? Either way, absolutely adorable. If those Moth priests weren't blind, I'm sure they'd just give her the scroll if she asked nicely :3

Ja_Jarsha_Rovandi: @AMKitsune: I think you can recover that arrow though?

Strawberry-Jamasaur: @AMKitsune: @Ja_Jarsha_Rovandi: Ja is correct in that, if you can find the arrow, it can be recovered, with the drawback that you would then be unable to remove it from your inventory. HOWEVER, this was never going to be game-lore accurate because I wanted the equipment to add the context associated. The original plan for this drawing was that Katia was in the Hall of Epochs, drawing the arrow in the bow, but in that plan she already had the scroll and was being chased by guards. I felt that would be too similar to my other contest entry(also I failed to sufficiently draw it, like, 5times), so I went with this, which is a better choice for the contest in my opinion. So you're right, but I already know. In fact there are a few points I've been expecting to get nitpicked, like the fact that the elder scroll she's being given is modeled after the one from Skyrim, not Oblivion

Strawberry-Jamasaur: OH MAN, You know what would be hilarious? If reading an elder scroll, which usually makes you go blind, counteracts the blindness effect of the cloak of gray tomorrows. I know it makes no sense, but elder scrolls are strange things that don't follow the normal rules of time and space. Do you think elder scrolls come in nightwriting?

Tahrey: How would you rea--- oh, right, I "see".

Anyway, I assume the pic refers to someone handing her the scroll in trust to "just have a look at", then the other picture is the follow-up where she and her accomplice(s) are running like hell with no intention of actually giving it back?

Strawberry-Jamasaur: @Tahrey: No, the two picrures are unrelated. And as I mentioned before, the moth priests are blind. In the mission a meeting is set up for a famous scholar to read an elder scroll. You go and take the scroll instead. Though I do like that idea.

Tahrey: ah, it's just because there seems to be that same blue glow in both pics, I figured it was from the scroll in this one being stuffed into her bag in the other :D